Course Descriptions - Spring 2003
Course Titles

C102 | 1497 | Elementary Chinese II | Chen

Undergraduates only, 4 credits; P: grade of C or higher in C101 or equivalent proficiency.

This course is designed to continue to lay a groundwork for those who are interested in learning about Chinese people and understanding their culture. It aims to develop students' overall competence in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Chinese with special emphasis on oral-aural skills. A learner-centered, task-based, and proficiency-driven approach will be employed. This course meets five hours a week: two 1-hour interactive lectures, and three 1-hour drill sessions. In general, Tuesday lecture emphasizes the context and usage of key vocabulary and common sentence patterns. Thursday lecture is devoted to listening and reading activities. Drills consolidate and expand what is covered in the
lectures.

Students will have opportunities to talk about their lives, perform skits, read simple stories, and write journals. Authentic materials and computer-assisted language software will also be incorporated to
enhance learning effectiveness. Daily and active participation in class is expected. Grades will be based on daily performance, homework assignments, quizzes, lesson tests, and oral/written exams.

Textbook: Interactions II: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese (Text and Workbook), by Jennifer Li-chia Liu and Margaret.
Mian Yan

C102 | 1503 | Elementary Chinese II (graduate students) | Chen

Graduate students only, 2 credits; P: grade of C or higher in C101 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for C102, undergraduates. C102 meets as one class, but this section is for graduate students only.

C202 | 1509 | Second-Year Chinese II | Chen

Undergraduates only, 4 credits; P: grade of C or higher in C201 or equivalent proficiency

This course is designed to further develop students?overall language proficiency. By the end of the semester, students should be able to: 1) carry out a face-to-face daily conversation with
ease; 2) narrate a simple story or describe a familiar event; and 3) read and write about what students can say in Chinese.

The class meets five hours a week: two hours of interactive lectures and three hours of drills. Lectures focus on the introduction of essential grammatical patterns and discussion of the text; drills
aim at helping students practice and internalize key vocabulary and grammatical patterns.

Daily and active participation in class is expected. The grade will be based on daily performance, homework, quizzes, lesson tests, and oral/written exams.

C202 | 1514 | Second-Year Chinese II (graduate students) | Chen

Graduates students only, 2 credits; P: grade of C or higher in C201 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for C202, undergraduates. C202 meets as one class, but this section is for graduate students only.

C302 | 1519 | Third-Year Chinese II | Liu

P: grade of C or higher in C301 or equivalent proficiency

This course, conducted entirely in Chinese, is learner-centered, content-based, and proficiency-driven. It seeks to further develop students' overall language proficiency through extensive reading of modern texts in various styles. Students will have opportunities to narrate personal experience, discuss current social problems, and explore cultural issues. The class meets five hours a week: two one-hour interactive lectures and three one-hour drills. Both lectures and drills aim at vocabulary expansion, consolidation of essential grammatical patterns, and the development of skills to approach
authentic written texts. Daily and active participation in class is required. The grade will be based on daily performance, homework assignments, quizzes, and three oral/written tests.

C307 | 1522 | Literary Chinese II (undergraduates) | Raz

P: successful completion of EALC C306 or consent of the instructor

See course description for C507. This class meets with C507, but this section is for undergraduates only.

C320 | 1523 | Business Chinese | Li

P: grade of C or higher in C301 or equivalent proficiency
R: Students may be concurrently registered in both C302 and C320.

This course focuses on practical language skills that are most helpful in actual business interactions with Chinese-speaking communities. Classroom activities, TASK-BASED and largely in the form of real world simulation, will be based on authentic documents and correspondence as well as a course packet. Some highlights include: business negotiation in international trade, business letter writing, business documents comprehension, business oral presentation, commercial language and word processing. Through intensive practice in the listening, speaking, reading and writing of the Chinese language for business purposes, students will enhance their cultural awareness and acquire vocabulary, phrases and
sentence patterns commonly used in typical Chinese business contexts.

Classes are conducted entirely in Chinese in three one-hour drills. Active participation in class is required. The grade will be based on class performance, homework assignments, quizzes, and
oral/written tests.

C402 | 1524 | Fourth-Year Chinese II | Chen

P: grade of C or better in C401 or equivalent proficiency

This course is designed for advanced students of Chinese to (1) improve their overall language proficiency through extensive reading of texts in various topics, styles, or genres; (2) acquire a deeper
understanding of major issues concerning modern Chinese intellectuals as well as a fuller picture of contemporary Chinese life and society; (3) obtain skills to be independent and confident
learners of Chinese.

Attendance is mandatory. Active participation in class is expected. The grade will be based on class performance, comprehension exercises, oral presentations, composition assignments, quizzes, and
tests.

C450 | 1525 | Chinese Writing and Rhetoric(undergraduates) | Liu

P: grade of C or better in C402 or equivalent proficiency, or permission of the instructor

See course description for C550. This class meets with C550, but this section is for undergraduates only.

Note: Permission of instructor required for enrollment. Interested students should contact the instructor (855-5180, Goodbody 221) to obtain further information and discuss their needs/interests.

C502 | 1526 | Fourth-Year Chinese II (graduate students) | Chen

P: grade of C or better in C501 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for C402. This class meets with C402, but this section is for graduate students only.

C507 | 1527 | Literary Chinese II | Raz

P: grade of C or better in C506 or equivalent proficiency, or permission of the instructor.

The objective of this course is to further develop the student's facility in reading and translating literary Chinese (wen-yen). Readings will be taken from literary texts of various periods up to and including the modern period. Students will learn the basic syntactic structures of the language and the various functions of common particles.

The course stresses knowledge of grammar, reading vocabulary, and accurate translation from wen-yen into English. Grading will be based on class attendance and performance, the timely completion of
assignments, interim quizzes, and a final examination.

C521 | 1528 | Readings in Chinese Literature I | Bokenkamp

Topic: Medieval Biographical Literature and the Role of the *Zhengao

The *Zhengao [Declarations of the Perfected], assembled and annotated by Tao Hongjing (456-536), contains a number of biographical notices transmitted by various deities to the Daoist medium Yang Xi (330-?). Modern scholars have tended to follow Tao in reading these as factual records that might contribute to a history of Daoism. In this course, we will approach these texts as works of literature, analyzing them in terms of the literary and social milieu in which they were produced. Material for comparison will be drawn from both secular writings such as the *Shishuo xinyu and from "Daoist" works such as the early *zhiguai collections. A final research paper is required.

Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor is mandatory for all students desiring to enroll in this course. Students are requested to complete a series of preliminary readings before the beginning of
the term.

C550 | 1529 | Chinese Writing and Rhetoric | Liu

P: grade of C or better in C502 or equivalent proficiency, or permission of instructor

This course is designed for advanced students of Chinese to develop the facility to speak and write effectively for both formal and informal exchanges through extensive readings and analysis of modern social as well as literary texts. It fosters the understanding of how Chinese frame discourse to appeal to the reader and audience in various contexts as well as the development of the ability to present ideas with precise diction, in appropriate registers, and in extended discourse.

Class activity will mainly consist of discussions of issues that concern modern Chinese intellectuals, presentations of materials prepared by students, and the examination of appropriate expressions. Writing assignments range from specialized correspondences, focused essays, creative writings, to research papers or projects.

Note: Permission of instructor required for enrollment. Interested students should contact the instructor (855-5180, Goodbody 221) to obtain further information and discuss their needs/interests.

E100 | 1475 | East Asia: An Introduction | Kennedy

East Asia: Traditional, crowded, poor, authoritarian, dirty, and rural. These adjectives of China, Japan, and Korea are still used by some, but more often we now hear others: Modern, (almost) democratic, dynamic, high-tech, and urban. To what extent did East Asia used to fit the first group of adjectives, and to what extent does it now fit the latter? This course provides a broad overview of East Asia from its earliest recorded history up to the early 21st century. Areas covered include these countries' social structures, arts, economies, and politics. In addition to looking at their internal developments, we also consider the affect that East Asia and the rest of the world have had on each other. Readings are
from a textbook, literature, a short autobiography, and the popular media. Assignments include two short papers, a midterm, and a final. The course is designed for students with little to no background or knowledge of East Asia. Others are urged to begin with a 200-level survey course in their area of interest.

E101 | 1478 | Popular Culture in East Asia | Robinson

This course is a survey of contemporary popular culture in Japan, China, and Korea. We will consider East Asia as a late-developing region of global capitalism, and how the region has developed its unique version of modernity. We will also be concerned with how East Asian mass culture affects global culture through a reverse flow of cultural influence. Modern versions of traditional Asian cultural forms (Buddhism, martial arts, book illustration, fashion, tonsure) as well as East Asian adaptations of modern leisure technologies (printing, film, recording, automobile design) have influenced our own material culture in many ways. This course will provide background in East Asian culture and society as
well as ideas that will help students understand and analyze their immediate cultural environment.

In addition to lecture and discussion and viewing documentary films on issues of cross-cultural contact, we will study a range of primary sources from East Asian and American popular culture, including comic books, action figures, animated television programs, fashion magazines. The course
points toward a final project in which students will do an essay analyzing an American cultural artifact that has its roots in Asia, or one that has been influenced by Asian popular or traditional culture.

E160 | 1479 | The Daoist Body | Bokenkamp

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences "Topics" requirement.

Daoism [also spelled "Taoism"] is commonly known as the "religion of immortality." This is because the express goal of Daoism is to teach its followers to merge bodily with the Dao, the basic life-force of the
universe, and thus become xian [often translated "immortals"]. But of course Daoists did die. Modern scholars of the religion, unable to locate any clear expression in Daoist texts concerning the immortality of the soul, are thus presented with a puzzle. Given that traditional Chinese civilization was in all other ways extremely practical, how could such an apparently irrational, death-denying, religion ever have arisen there? In this course, we shall examine traditional Chinese views of the body through. Daoist scriptures, images, stories, and meditations in an attempt to discover what the attainment of xianhood meant in flesh and blood, as well as spiritual, terms to early Chinese Daoists. Requirements for the course include several short papers on assigned readings and a final paper of five
pages in length. Credit given for only one of EALC E160 and COAS E103 on this topic.

Credit given for only one of EALC E160 and COAS E103 on this topic.

E231 | 1482 | Japan: The Living Tradition | Rubinger

The course will survey highpoints in Japan's cultural tradition from earliest times to the present. Connections to contemporary culture will be drawn wherever possible. Topics will include: social hierarchies, religious traditions, the performing arts and film, literacy and language, warrior values, the culture of beauty, popular culture, and relationships with the outside world. The format will be lecture/discussion with film, video, and slide showings. Requirements include a midterm and final
examination, and one paper.

E232 | 1483 | China: The Enduring Heritage | Raz

This course introduces students to patterns of the Chinese past and present, particularly to China's evolving Confucian tradition and its transformation under the present Communist regime. E232
includes three course units, each employing a different perspective as we move chronologically through cultural history. Ancient China is explored through the religious and ethical ideas of China's elite
class, which we will read in translations of classics such as the *Dao de jing,* by the Daoist thinker Lao-zi, and the *Analects* of Confucius. We approach the medieval period by considering the lives
of non-elite classes and the way representatives of the governing class interacted with them. For this portion of the course, we focus on popular short stories the period and other narrative
materials. The modern era, from the Opium War of 1842 to the present, is analyzed through political history, using fiction, autobiography, and documentary sources to explore the rise and
transformation of communist society in China and the question of its links to China's Confucian past.

Written requirements include three short papers, a midterm and final, and brief exercises or quizzes. E232 is designed as a general introduction to Chinese society and culture, and to prepare
students for upper level courses in Chinese history, religion, philosophy, politics, and literature. *No prior background in Chinese studies is required.*

E251 | 1484 | Traditional East Asian Civilizations | Struve

This course treats the cultural histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistoric times through the seventeenth century. We examine how the cultures of these three regions remained distinct in many
ways while also participating in a single East Asian civilization. Attention is drawn especially to political institutions, social values, philosophical and religious thought, and aesthetic
sensibilities in the arts and literature. We read from a basic textbook (Schirokauer, A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations), from a course-packet supplement on Korea, and from
translated literature (principally Birch, ed., Anthology of Chinese Literature, Vol. 1, and Keane, ed., Anthology of Japanese Literature) to see how certain aspects and values are expressed in
the original writing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean authors. Numerous slides are used to pursue these matters in the visual arts. Grades are based on three essay examinations, a map quiz, and
class participation.

Credit given for only one of EALC E251 and HIST H237.

E350 | 1485 | Tokyo: History and Culture | Keirstead

In this course, we'll explore the city of Edo-Tokyo over the past four centuries, from its inauspicious beginnings in the swamps and marshes to its contemporary incarnation as a global city, a hub of
transnational finance and culture. We'll roam its streets and alleyways, sampling its notorious places and popular attractions. We'll investigate how people have lived and worked and played in the
city, and we'll look at how they've tried to make sense of the megalopolis. Our framework will be historical, but our texts will be diverse--buildings, maps, screen paintings, prints, photographs,
film, novels. Occasional quizzes, periodic essays, and a take-home final exam.

E350 | 148 | Media and Democracy in East Asia6 | Sim

This course meets with Communication and Culture (CMCL) C415. Credit given for only one of EALC E350 and CMCL C415 on this topic. See CMCL C415 for the course description.

E374 | 1487 | Early Chinese Philosophy | Eno

Philosophical thought in China addresses an agenda different in essential ways from that which has shaped philosophical discourse in the West. Not only are central issues different, but axioms, methods, standards, and concepts of truth in Chinese thought often seem unfamiliar, elusive, or radically inadequate from as a Western perspective. Perhaps the most important battles in China?
philosophical history were fought between the years of 500 and 200 B.C., in the course of as a single prolonged debate that gave birth to philosophy in China and largely set its agenda. The origins and
development of that debate will be the subject matter of this course. The debaters who will be central for us will include Confucians (Confucius, Mencius, Hsun Tzu), Mohists (Mo Tzu), and Taoists (Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu.). But we will also consider other figures whose ideas helped shape early philosophy in this period, including Legalists, Logicians, and Naturalists. To highlight the distinctiveness of the agenda set by this debate, we will focus on as a critical theme: the tight linkage between knowledge and action
in early Chinese philosophy, and the complex concepts of knowing and human nature which that linkage entailed.

Requirements will include midterm and final exams, and two short papers.

Credit given for only one of EALC E374 and PHIL P374.

E385 | 1488 | Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity | Robinson

This course will seek to build an understanding of the historical, cultural, sociological, and racial dynamics behind the evolution of contemporary Asian American identity. As the designation implies,
Asian American identity is a combination of two traditions. We will study the roots of "Asian-ness" and critique its singular focus by seeing "difference" within the Asian American community, its Korean,
Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian origins. This course will also study the gaps between prevailing stereotypes of Asian Americans and the wide range of experiences and identifications expressed in Asian American literature, journalism, and contemporary film. The sources for our study will be novels, film, and essays that focus on Asian American experience from the late 19th century to the present. Key
to the success of this course will be students' work on refining their own understanding of the major components of cultural and political identity formation. Thus, in studying the evolution of Asian American culture and identity, we will also be gaining a deeper understanding of how ethnicity, race, and politics operate in contemporary American culture itself. Too often the public discourse on race and ethnicity in American operates from simplistic assumptions that to become American means a fundamental effacement of original ethnic difference. This course will focus on how cultural identity develops nuances and complexity in its negotiations between the powerful forces of race, power, and classin American society.

Lectures, reading, film viewing, and class discussions will be used as the basis for our writing exercises. There will be three short essays (3-5 pages), and perhaps four or more "exercises" (1-2 pages) that will include summaries, reviews, editorials, or an op/ed page simulation. There will also be a final essay examination. Points, weighted to the importance of the assignment, will be assigned to each exercise, and student performance will be judged on overall scores while considering student participation and input to class discussions.

E386 | 1489 | U.S.-East Asian Relations | Kennedy

The United States and East Asia have had a love-hate relationship. The US found itself at war in East Asia several times during the twentieth century and still has 100,000 soldiers stationed in the region. Apart from Cuba, the world's only surviving Communist states are in East Asia. The level of the US's trade with its Pacific partners now outpaces that with its Atlantic partners; while generally beneficial, the fruits of these economic links have not been distributed evenly. And while East Asia has enriched the US's culture, many East Asians resent America's attempt to "force" its values on them. This course provides a broad overview of the zigs and zags in US-East Asian security, economic, and political
relations, with an emphasis on ties since World War II. We will examine the influence of identity formation and culture, economic and security interests and power, and formal institutions on both
the US's bilateral relations with some key countries (Japan, China and Korea) and US relations with the region generally.

Students should already have taken a course on either East Asia or international relations. Tentative requirements include 75-100 pages of reading per week, 2 papers, a quiz, a midterm, and a final exam.

E472 | 1490 | Modern Japanese Fiction| Alvis

E472 focuses on psychological "realism" as a mainstream goal of modern Japanese literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Psychological "realism," as we will discover, is not an
absolute term. Rather, an author's idea of what is psychologically "real" works to critique "idealized" thoughts and feelings attributed to people in his or her social period. We will see, for example, how the weak willed and lustful hero of Futabatei Shimei's Drifting Clouds challenges the ideal of a purposeful, high minded samurai, and how the angry heroines of woman writer Takahashi Takako question the social idea of a nurturing and devoted mother.

E472 covers 75-100 pages of reading a week, including both short stories and secondary material. Students' work will be evaluated through regular homework assignments, 6 microthemes (or short
papers), a midterm and a final.

E496 | 1491 | Foreign Study: Japan Study Tour | Watt

Permission of Instructor required. Only those who have applied, been approved by Professor Watt, and paid the deposit will be authorized for this course.

The Kelley School of Business and the East Asian Studies Center have received a grant from the Freeman Foundation to offer a 3-credit course which includes a study tour on international business and
culture in Japan. This course, which will also be listed as BUS D496 for business students, will be team-taught by Professor Marc Dollinger of the Kelley School of Business and Professor Yasuko Ito Watt of East Asian Languages and Culture. The course will include a mandatory10-day study tour to Japan over spring break.

The class will be project and discussion oriented. The first part of the semester will be spent getting ready for the trip to Japan (especially Tokyo). The course will focus on history, basic Japanese phrases, and culture, as well as the major industries and companies of Japan. Then the class will visit Japan from March 13 through March 22. This study tour will include historical and cultural sites as well as visits to companies and important commercial areas in Tokyo. Upon return to IU, the class will debrief its experiences and students will prepare their reports and projects for presentation.

The Freeman Foundation grant will provide round trip air fare for students and a small subsidy for hotel and in-country expenses. Due to the funding from the Freeman foundation, regrettably this opportunity is for American citizens only at this time. Students will be responsible for expenses in Japan, which will amount to approximately $100/day for food, housing, and local transportation. A non-refundable deposit of is due upon acceptance of application.

E505 | 1492 | Modern Japanese Fiction | Alvis

See course description for EALC E472. This section of E505 meets as one class with E472, but this section is for graduate students only.

E505 | 1493 | U.S.-East Asian Relations | Kennedy

See course description for EALC E386. This section of E505 meets as one class with E386, but this section is for graduate students only. Graduate students will be required to complete additional readings and a research paper, and, will meet separately with the instructor as a group at several points during the semester.

E505 | 1494 | Modernist/Post Modernist Literary Encounters: East and West | Sarra

This course will explore creative appropriations of classical East Asian literature by Anglo-American Modernists and postwar/contemporary American expatriate poets and writers. We will focus primarily on issues of poetic translation and the space of exile created by modern Anglo-American ex-patriate poets and translators but we will also consider other modes of cross-cultural literary/artistic exchange, should the interests of the seminar members warrant.

Students with competency in modern or classical Japanese language may register for the course as J521 if they are willing and able to handle primary and/or secondary texts in Japanese. The course is cross-listed with Comparative Literature, and students with no background in an East Asian language are welcome and encouraged to enroll. Students with background in classical Chinese are especially encouraged to join.

In addition to regular participation in seminar discussions, students will be evaluated on the basis of individual in-class oral presentations, and a research paper due at the end of the course.

Readings tentatively include:

• Natsume Soseki's England journals;
• Yeats' Noh plays;
• Pound/Fenollosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry;
• Pound's Pisan Cantos, and his translations of the Analects;
• translations of the Book of Odes;
• Gary Snyder (essays, journals, and translations of Han shan,Miyazawa Kenji and others);
  
• Cid Corman's essays and translations of Basho, Buson, and others.

E574 | 1496 | Early Chinese Philosophy | Eno

See course description for EALC E374. This section of E505 meets as one class with E374, but this section is for graduate students only. In addition, graduate students meet for ten graduate discussion sessions during the term to discuss additional secondary readings and exchange research reports as the term comes towards as a close.

J102 | 1530-1531 | Elementary Japanese II | Tsujimura

Undergraduates only, 4 credits; P: grade of C or better in J101 or equivalent proficiency

This course is a continuation of J101. The goal of the course is for students to further acquire basic communicative skills in Japanese and to become well-rounded in their overall skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing).

Students will be graded daily on their performances and there will be frequent quizzes and exams. Assignments include written exercises for each lesson, listening exercises, and miscellaneous exercises at the discretion of the instructor.

J102 | 1541-1542 | Elementary Japanese II (graduate students) | Tsujimura

Graduate students only, 2 credits; P: grade of C or better in J101 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for J102, undergraduates. J102 meets as one class, but this section is for graduate students only.

J202 | 1552 | Second-Year Japanese II | Sarra

Undergraduates only, 4 credits; P: grade of C or better in J201 or equivalent proficiency

The goal of this course is for the students to continue to improve communicative skills in Japanese and to become more well-rounded in their overall skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing).

Requirements include lecture attendance, homework assignments, quizzes and tests, and a midterm and a final exam.

J202 | 1559 | Second-Year Japanese II (graduate students) | Sarra

Graduate students only, 2 credits; P: grade of C or better in J201 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for J202, undergraduates. J202 meets as one class, but this section is for graduate students only.

J302 | 1566 | Third-Year Japanese II | Alvis

P: grade of C or better in J301 or equivalent proficiency

The purpose of this course is to advance the student? skill in both reading and writing modern Japanese and in oral/aural comprehension. The MWF classes will emphasize reading and writing, and will concentrate on 1) further mastery of grammar, syntax, and kanji; 2) proficiency in vocal reading; and 3) proficiency in simple composition. The TR classes will emphasize oral/aural practice.

Requirements include periodic quizzes, chapter tests, graded homework, and a final exam. Steady attendance and readiness to participate in classroom work are essential, and will be considered
in computing the final grade.

J402 | 1570 | Fourth-Year Japanese II | Watt

P: grade of C or better in J401 or equivalent proficiency

This advanced course in Japanese is the last course in the basic language sequence. The aim of the course is to encourage students to become autonomous, life-long learners. Instruction will continue on the four skills of language (reading, speaking, listening, and writing). Reading materials will include examples of various genres. Students will express their thoughts on the readings both orally and in writing. The course requirements include active class participation, assignments, quizzes and tests, a course project, and the final examination.

J451 | 1571 | Readings in Japanese Newspapers & Journals (undergraduates) | Rubinger

P: grade of C or better in J402 or equivalent proficiency, or permission of the instructor

See course description for J542. This class meets with J542, but this section is for undergraduates only.

J502 | 1572 | Fourth-Year Japanese II (graduate students) | Watt

P: grade of C or better in J501 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for J402. This class meets with J402, but this section is for graduate students only.

J521 | 1573 | Readings in Japanese Literature I | Sarra

See course description for E505 on ?iterary Encounters.? This class meets with this E505, but this section is for graduate students who want to do the majority of the course readings and assignments in Japanese. For more information on whether this is the appropriate registration, contact Professor Edith Sarra.

J522 | 1574 | Readings in Japanese Literature II | Alvis

See course description for E472 on ?odern Japanese Fiction? This class meets with E472 and E505 on this topic, but this section is for graduate students who want to do the majority of the course readings and assignments in Japanese. For more information on whether this is the appropriate registration, contact Professor Andra Alvis.

J542 | 1575 | Readings in Japanese Historical Texts | Rubinger

P: grade of C or better in J402 or equivalent proficiency, or permission of the instructor

An advanced course in Japanese for those wishing to enhance their reading skills beyond the fourth-year level. Emphasis will be on reading comprehension of a wide variety of genres: newspaper and magazine articles, short stories, historical fiction, and academic essays. Student interests will be taken into account in selecting materials for study.

K102 | 1576 | Elementary Korean II | Lee

Undergraduates only, 4 credits; P: grade of C or better in K101 or equivalent proficiency

This course is the second part of first-year Korean, and is intended to help student further develop conversational and grammatical skills from those learned in the first semester. Students will practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing with more complex structures. For instance, students will learn how to talk and write about complex events and logical relationships. Simple reporting and writing will also be practiced.

K102 | 1578 | Elementary Korean II (graduate students) | Lee

Graduate students only, 2 credits; P: grade of C or better in K101 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for K102, undergraduates. K102 meets as one class, but this section is for graduate students only.

K202 | 1580 | Second-Year Korean II | Choi

P: grade of C or better in K201 or equivalent proficiency

This course provides students with further conversational and grammatical skills at an intermediate level. For example, students will learn aspects of the language that allow them to quote someone else? speech, challenge another person? assessment, and show their emotional as well as intellectual relationship to an experience. Skills for narrating or reporting what happened in an extended
manner will be enhanced.

K202 | 1582 | Second-Year Korean II (graduate students) | Choi

Graduate students only, 2 cr; P: grade of C or better in K201 or equivalent proficiency

See course description for K202, undergraduates. This class meets with K202, but this section is for graduate students only.

K302 | 1584 | Third-Year Korean II | Lee

P: grade of C or better in K301 or equivalent proficiency

The objective of this course is to develop writing and speaking skills, and especially skills that will allow competent independent reading of as a variety of texts. Students will be trained both in close and in rapid reading comprehension. Emphasis will be placed on complementing the students?previous knowledge of Korean, expanding their vocabulary, and familiarizing them with various communicative settings, particularly through authentic material.

A360 | 9371 | FINA | Soundless Poems: Word and Image in Chinese Art | S. Nelson

(Topics in East Asian Art)

Painting and poetry are sometimes referred to as sister arts, parallel modes for human expression. In China, where the same brush is used for writing and painting and where almost every painting is inscribed with a written text, the link between the two arts is particularly close. Sometimes these works were collaborative: poets composed verses in response to painted scenes, and painters were inspired by poems old or new. In other cases, people talented in both arts combined visual and verbal expression on the same surface, to be contemplated together by the viewer. In the west, we call it mixed media; in China, it's just what art is.

These distinctive word-image interactions in Chinese art are the subject of the course. Using translations of the inscribed texts, we will study examples representing a range of formats (long handscrolls, elegant fans, book-like albums), subjects (landscapes, flowers, figures), genres (narratives, lyrics), and contexts (scholars, gentry, the court). Various case studies will give rise to questions such as the dominance of one art over the other, how they function to reinforce or complicate one another, and the interpretive role of the viewer/reader In the process, the course offers a general overview of many key aspects of Chinese history and culture.

There are several quizzes and short written assignments; no final exam. No previous knowledge of Chinese art or culture is necessary.

This course carries Culture Studies Credit.

C311 | 1128 | | CMLT | Drama: Character and Style in Japanese and Western Drama | Prof. Sumie Jones

(3 credits. A & H) TR 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. BH 331

The focus for this semester's study of drama will be conceptions and creations of character. Works of Japanese drama, traditional and modern, will be examined in comparison with western counterparts.
Chief topics include the woman (the noh Matsukaze in contrast with Sophocles?Antigone), the tragic hero (the noh Atsumori in comparison with Shakespeare? MacBeth and Kurosawa? film The Throne of Blood), the rogue (kabuki Benten Boy in comparison with Molie`re? Tartuff), the ghost (the noh Benkei Aboard the Ship the kabuki and Bunraku versions of Yoshitsune and a Thousand Cherries and kabuki The Ghost Story of Yotsuya in comparison with Shakespeare? Hamlet), and the absent character (Abe Kobo? Friends and Terayama Shuji? experimental plays in contrast with Pirandello? Six Characters in Search of an Authhor). Some concepts of drama and character (Aristotle, Zeami and Chikamatsu) as well as the history and form of Japanese theatre (noh, kyo?gen, Bunraku, kabuki, shingeki, and avant-garde theatre) will be introduced. Our concern will be the role of characterization in exploring the theme and coordinating the plot and its relation to the conventions of various genres of drama. The majority of the texts will be studied in selected parts and most will be discussed in terms of performance by the aid of video recordings. There will be a midterm and a final examinations in addition to two short in-class essays.
Some background (one or two courses) in literature or theatre will help but no knowledge of the Japanese language or culture is required.
This course meets the A & H requirement.

F305 | 2290 | FOLK | Chinese Film Music | Tuohy

Meets with F600. The course introduces Chinese film, music and the film industry and techniques for analyzing films. The course focuses on films that feature music and musicians as their central topic or
component produced in China from the 1930s to the present as well as Hollywood films about China. Two primary course objectives are 1) to learn methods for "reading" film music; and 2) to learn to read
Chinese films and listen to their soundtracks in relation to their representations of Chinese culture. The films and music will be contextualized within the social-historical conditions of their production as well the conditions which the films portray. We will move between portrayals of Chinese life within the films to discourse about the films and to other types of representations of Chinese culture and music.

Course materials include a book on analyzing music and film, articles on Chinese film and music (available through Electronic Reserves and a short Reader), and multimedia materials, coordinated through a website and CD-Rom. Several films will be viewed outside the class as "homework assignments." Assignments (subject to change) will include: a midterm exam (short answer and essay), several short synthetic and analytic papers, precis of selected readings, and a final research paper of approximately 10 double-spaced pages for undergraduates and 20 double-space pages for graduate students (formats other than a research paper also are possible).

The course is cross-listed at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture; it fulfills one of the "world area course requirements" for Ph.D. minors in the
Ethnomusicology Program and COAS AHTI and Culture Option A requirements.

F600 | 2307 | FOLK | Chinese Film Music: Sounds & Images | Tuohy

Meets with F305. The course introduces Chinese film, music and the film industry and techniques for analyzing films. The course focuses on films that feature music and musicians as their central topic or
component produced in China from the 1930s to the present as well as Hollywood films about China. Two primary course objectives are 1) to learn methods for "reading" film music; and 2) to learn to read
Chinese films and listen to their soundtracks in relation to their representations of Chinese culture. The films and music will be contextualized within the social-historical conditions of their production as well the conditions which the films portray. We will move between portrayals of Chinese life within the films to discourse about the films and to other types of representations of Chinese culture and music.

Course materials include a book on analyzing music and film, articles on Chinese film and music (available through Electronic Reserves and a short Reader), and multimedia materials, coordinated through a website and CD-Rom. Several films will be viewed outside the class as "homework assignments." Assignments (subject to change) will include: a midterm exam (short answer and essay), several short synthetic and analytic papers, precis of selected readings, and a final research paper of approximately 10 double-spaced pages for undergraduates and 20 double-space pages for graduate students (formats other than a research paper also are possible).

The course is cross-listed at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture; it fulfills one of the "world area course requirements" for Ph.D. minors in the
Ethnomusicology Program and COAS AHTI and Culture Option A requirements.

G369 | 2850 | HIST | Modern Japan | Keirstead

Above section carries culture studies credit
Above section open to undergraduates only

A survey of Japanese history and culture from about 1600 to the present day, this course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of important themes in modern Japanese civilization.
The course begins in the early modern period, with a consideration of the intellectual and cultural matrix that provided the backdrop to modern Japan. From there we proceed to the immense political, social, and economic changes occasioned and exacerbated by expanded contact with the West: Japan's insistence on "catching up" with the West, problems of industrialization and political "modernization,"
and Japanese imperialism. We conclude in the postwar period, with a Japan cognizant of the fact that it has "caught up" and seeking ways to contend with its new-found affluence. Occasional quizzes, periodic essays, and a take-home final exam.

G382 | 2851 | HIST | China: The Age of Glory | Struve

Above section carries culture studies credit
Above section open to undergraduates only

This course examines the 1200 dramatic years during which the Chinese state twice attained enormous size and power as a great Eurasian empire, the Qin-Han period of ca. 200 BC-200 AD and the Sui-Tang period of ca 600-900 AD, as well as the long era of political dissolution and disunity in between. What historical factors account for those bursts of civilization energy, and how did Chinese civilization (unlike the Greco-Roman) manage to restore itself on traditional groundwork after hundreds of years of political
fragmentation and cultural change? How did the different values of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism achieve workable coexistence, and how did Han-Chinese society interact with non-Han peoples from the
steppe region who often outstripped them militarily? What accounts for developments in the literary and visual arts which defined the great Chinese traditions in those fields of creativity? And how did the Chinese themselves write and interpret their own history throughout this era of both exciting and devastating change? These are some of the questions we will address during the semester.

We will proceed in a lecture-discussion mode. Attendance will be taken and grade penalties assigned for numerous unexcused absences. Grades will be based principally on three in-class essay examinations. A one-grade-step adjustment, up or down, may be made to a student? final grade depending on quantity and quality of classroom participation.

Textbooks:
Fairbank and Reischauer, "China: Tradition and Transformation"
Cyril Birch, ed., "Anthology of Chinese Literature", Vol. 1
W.T. de Bary, ed., "Sources of Chinese Tradition", Vol. 1

G387 | 2852 | HIST | Contemporary China | Wasserstrom

Above section carries culture studies credit
Above section open to undergraduates only

How can looking at events of the last century help us understand what is happening in the world? most populous country today? What historical precedents are there for the 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square that almost toppled the Deng Xioping regime from power, and for the efforts at economic reform that the government is experimenting with right now? How have the momentous transformations of the post-1949 era changed and left unchanged the way that ordinary Chinese women and men live and work and see the world? These and other questions will be addressed in this course, which focuses primarily on placing the first half-century of Chinese Communist Party-rule in historical and comparative perspective. The main writing assignments will take the form of short essays responding to weekly readings; there will be several quizzes and a take-home final. Documentary feature films, as well as other visual materials, will be used to help the history of the period come alive. Most class meetings will be divided between a lecture period and a block of time set aside for discussion and other forms of
interactive learning.

Y333 | 3566 | POLT | Chinese Politics | Robinson

This course fulfills COAS distribution for SHSI and for Culture Studies List A
In some ways China no longer seems revolutionary since it partakes in consumption in many of the same ways we do listening to CDs, using the Web, buying cars, dressing in Diesel jeans. But China is remarkable for its complete transformations over the past fifty years. In the twentieth century, Chinese revolutionaries talked of fanshen by which they meant completely overturning political, social and property relationships. In many ways, the politics of China of the last fifty years is a story, told again and again of fanshen an overturning and a complete transformation of political power, of sexual and gender relations, of culture, and of economic organization.
This course will offer the opportunity to examine these momentous political and social revolutions by looking at four different instances of revolution in the politics of China.

Specifically, we will look at

• the aims and practices of the revolution led by The Chinese Communist Party
• the transformation of women's roles in family and society
• the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and the culturalrevolutions of the 21st century
• the transformation, modernization and globalization of the Chinese economy

We will be looking at the reasons these revolutions occurred, the politics and practices of the revolutions themselves, and the impact of these revolutions on Chinese politics and society. We will have two primary aims in the course: to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanics and forces of political change, and to develop the skills necessary for understanding contemporary political conflicts and for contemplating the future dynamics of Chinese society and politics. I don't presume that everyone will enter this class knowledgeable about Chinese politics in general, so the first few weeks of the class will be devoted to learning about the evolution of Chinese political institutions. We will then turn to an in-depth political analysis of each of the four revolutions, using both political and historical analyses as well as some original source materials (although translated into English) such as memoirs, personal histories, political documents, and film documentaries. We will be reading memoirs written by teenagers who lived through the Cultural Revolution, short stories about gender and sexuality, official documents outlining economic transformation, and a variety of social science analyses. I expect that there will be 4 books to purchase, as well as additional readings. Books will be selected by early November. You should expect to read about 150 pages a week. Graduate students enrolled for graduate credit may have additional assignments. I will probably give 2 multiple choice/essay exams, and you will be asked to produce one (perhaps collaborative) project including a position paper.